Type Name:

FAIENCE, SEINE POLYCHROME

Category:

FAIENCE

Production Origin:

FRANCE

Production Date Range:

1690-1765

Defining Attributes:

Paste is hard, cream to salmon color

Tin enameled, white to off-white back ground

Stylized borders with floral and geomtric designs

Designs painted in combinations of blue, black, yellow, green purple, and reddish-orange

Central medallion may have floral motif

Vessel Forms:

BOWL
PITCHER
PITCHER
PLATE
PLATTER

Comments:

Published Definitions:

Walthall 1991a; Walthall 1991b; Waslekov and Walthall 2002